Yes, he described Palestinians as “the bugs” and said some other really fucking ignorant quotes from that movie without the slightest understanding of Paul Verhoeven’s intent (his effort may have been doomed from the start; he even scolded actors on set for “not getting it” and just enjoying the fascism).
I have some license with what I say because I’m moving and transferring out of state in a few weeks but I also don’t want to have a bad mark on my record by saying something particularly scary about the IDF, so what should I tell him on Monday?
Ask him if he remembers how Doogie Howser was dressed at the end of the movie.
That did come up. He wore irony armor, however, and remarked that he “looked cool” but that he wasn’t a nazi; “it was just a cool uniform and he was doing it for the human race. He cared about human life so he wasn’t a nazi.”
Ya know, the nazis thought the same exact thing of themselves.
They sure did.
How do I even argue with him? I know I didn’t reach him yesterday.
Honestly though, just tell him that he isn’t engaging with art in anywhere near an intelligent way. That it’s very surface level. If he’s like most libs that will offend him and he might need to reconsider how he interpreted it.
He’s the chemistry teacher so he gleefully shits on the humanities.
oh then why’s he even pretending to understand a movie, ask him if you can fuck around in his lab despite not being a chemist
He believes that he can do a non-STEM job just as well as a non-STEM person because only STEM degrees matter and everything else is, quoting him, “children’s puppet theater.”
Good fucking luck putting on a children’s puppet show without knowing anything about children’s puppet theater, by the way.
Maybe if “Starship Troopers” was presented in ‘children’s puppet theater’ format the themes would be more apparent.
That’s why I love having a stem doctorate. I get to make those people feel like the shit idiots they are.
sometimes I wonder what it’d be like to be a completely incurious dipshit, it always sounds so stress-free
He’s right in the exact wrong way lol. Without any understanding of the humanities, it is a puppet show- and he’s the puppet.
He sounds like the kind of guy who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near kids, or puppets for that matter
Did… did you teacher have a part in Starship Troopers? Is he this guy?
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An obvious counter that should shut this dude down: “Why are we talking about this? It’s just a movie, not real life. Why are you reading so much into it?”
Meet his incuriosity with your own. He sounds like he’s seeking validation for his intelligence and denying that will drive him up a wall.
And this is why multi-disciplinary education is so important.
Some of my least pleasant classroom experiences in college were STEMbros (especially the TE part) that dragged their feet through the one or two non-STEM courses they had to take from time to time and had to constantly signal how displeased they were with being there.
I fully believe university education should be mandatory for most people, with more cross-field education required.
I know so many STEMbros who couldn’t understand the themes of a film or book if you smacked them in the head with it, and I also know so many humanities majors that fundamentally don’t understand the physical world around them to a point I don’t understand how they can walk down the street without dying.
There is no remedy then.
Irredeemable
Really don’t know
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